Philippine Mahogany Association Holds Annual Meeting

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The annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Asso- Walter G. Scrim, Scrim

Co., Los Angeles, was ciation was held at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, elected president for the 18th consecutive year. Other ofColo., on Thursday and Friday, July 13-14.

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The \(/itch Doctor

The two funniest men on earth to just sit around and listen to, are Joe Frisco, the stammering comedian, and Walter Catlett. When it cornes to sheer personal ability to entertain, they make the men with the big names in radio or screen or television look small. Frisco stutters enormously funny things. Catlett lives, and talks, and acts what he is telling you. When he starts to talk, all men stop to listen. He told me one the other day. Too bad you can't hear him, but I'll do the best I can to type it for you.

An English gentleman stood at a bar having himself a spot of liquor. Not far down the bar stood another gentleman, also by himself, doing the same. The first gentleman hears a voice that seems to come from the floor between himself and the other gentleman, and the voice says:

"Oh, I say, Percy, lift me up, won't you, so that I can have a spot o' drink?"

"Pardon me, Rollo," said the other gentleman at the bar, "I didn't notice you come in."

Saying which he reached down to the floor and picked up a little man. IIe was not more than a foot high, well dressed and well proportioned, but unbelievably small. He was placed on the bar, where he ordered a Scotch and soda. Meanwhile the first man was staring with open mouth and eyes at the midget. So the other gentleman spoke up. He said:

"Rollo, the gentleman is staring at you, for which, I am certain, you will not blame him. The gentleman doesn't understand, Rollo, that you lvere once a famous explorer. in the wilds of Africa. Go ahead, little Rollo, and tell the gentleman what the African witch doctor did to.you when you told him you thought he was a bloody, blawsted fakir!"

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Pope & Talbot Votes Employees' Bonus National Hardwood Rules Committee Approves Milpak Grade

Washington-The inspection rules committee of the National Hardwood Lumber Association approved a proposed grade for Milpak during its recent meeting, June 29-30, in Chicago, which will be submitted for adoption at the annual meeting of the Association in September, according to \Ar. H. Nelson, Chief Inspector.

Developing a suitable grade for l\{ilpak culminates an intensive two-year program conducted by Timber Engineering Company laboratory, for the Harrlwood Research Committee of National Lumber Manufacturers Association. to obtain greater utilization of low-grade hardwood lumber. This new product, manufactured from No. 2 Common hardwood, is produced as packaged lumber of random lengths and widths. Present indications are that it will find wide acceptance by furniture manufacturers and wood products plants.

According to comments made by students attending Milpak training courses in the TECO laboratory, a number of lumber manufacturers are prepared to begin production of Milpak irnmediately.

Pope & Talbot, Inc., shipping and lumber firm, on July 15 paid a bonus to all monthly salaried employees equal to 1O per cent of their salary for the six months ending June 30.

In making the announcement from his San Francisco headquarters, President George A. Pope, Jr., said that satisfactorv earnings for the first half of 1950 had made possible the bonus voted by the board of directors.

"The loyalty and hard work of our employees played an important part in the successful operations we enjoyed thc last six months," Pope explained. "We feel that they deserve this recognition."

Pope & T,albot, Inc., recently celebrated its 100th anniversary as one of the oldest business enterprises on the Pacific Coast. It maintains lumber mills in Oregon and Washington, together with a cargo and passenger shipping service to the east coast of South America, Puerto Rico, and intercoastal, between leading Atlantic and Pacific ports.

The stafi of the Timber Engineering Company has also made a partial survey of companies that use low-grade hardwood lumber. Names of those companies which have expressed an interest in buying Milpak are available to industry representatives attending the training courses.

The next Milpak school will start on Monday, August 21, and end on Friday, August 5. The number of enrollees for each course is limited to 10 to insure maximum personal attention for all students.

In addition to the Teco staff, representatives of packaging machinery companies and woodworking machinery concerns will serve as guest lecturers, thereby giving trainees the most up-to-date and best possible information on modern manufacturing methods.

Complete information and application blanks for enrollment in the August 2I-25 course in Milpak and Low Grade Lumber Utilization will be promptly furnished upon request to C .A, Rishell, Director of Research, Timber Engineering Company, 1319 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.